❧ By the King.  

C R  DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon or coat of arms  
❧ A Proclamation for calling in a Book, entitled, An Jntroduction to a Devout life; and that the same be publicly burnt.  
WHereas a Book, entitled, An Jntroduction to a Devout life, was lately printed by Nicholas Oakes of London, and many of them published and dispersed throughout the Realm, the Copy of which Book being brought to the Chaplain of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, for Licence and allowance, was by him, upon diligent perusal, in sundry places expunged and purged of diverse passages therein tending to Popery: Nevertheless the same Book, after it was so amended and allowed to be printed, was corrupted and falsified by the Translator and Stationer, who between them inserted again the same Popish and unsound passages: And the Stationer is now apprehended, and the Translator sought for to be proceeded against according to justice.  
His Majesty, out of His pious and constant care, to uphold and maintain the Religion professed in the Church of England in its purity, without Error or Corruption, Doth therefore hereby declare His Royal Will and Pleasure to be, and doth straightly Charge and Command all persons, of what degree, quality, or condition soever, to whose hands any of the said Books are, or shall come, that without delay they deliver or send them to the Bishop, or Chancellor of the Diocese, whom His Majesty requireth to cause the same to be publicly burnt, as such of them as have been already seized on, have been by His Majesty's express Command: And to this His Majesty's Royal Pleasure, he requireth all His loving Subjects to yield all due Conformity and Obedience, as they will avoid the censure of high Contempt.  
Given at Our Court at Whitehall, the fourteenth day of May, in the thirteenth year of Our Reign. 
 ❧ God save the King.   

¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty: And by the Assigns of john Bill. 1637.